->''"[[NobodyCallsMeChicken Call me an asshole]]... [[BerserkButton one more time]]."''-->-- '''Hancock'''

''Hancock'' is a 2008 film starring Creator/WillSmith as the titular [[AntiHero hero]].

The movie is about a drunken {{jerkass}} super-hero (played by Creator/WillSmith) who has been stopping crime in Los Angeles for years. He is incredibly clumsy and careless and has absolutely zero HeroInsurance, and every time he stops crime, something gets horribly wrecked, only annoying the city's denizens more and more. Each additional crime he stops raises the level of enmity the Angelenos have for him, and it isn't helped by the fact that they're all aware he cannot be restrained.

While he still opts to fight the bad guys, there is absolutely no public support for him... until he saves the life of Ray (Creator/JasonBateman), an idealistic marketing executive. Ray convinces him to clean up his act: to change his image from being a clumsy {{jerkass}} with no care for property damage to actually acting and dressing the part of a superhero, so that the people he saves will actually be ''happy'' to see him.

Soon Hancock opens up about himself, where he came from, and why he is constantly pissed off. It delves into his SuperHeroOrigin and there is a constant worry that everyone has a weakness, and Hancock doesn't know what his is.

The film's name is a case of title dissonance for British viewers of a certain age, who irrevocably associate the name with ''Tony'' Hancock, of ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'' fame. The actual reference, for those not well-versed in American history, is to ''John'' Hancock, who famously signed the American Declaration of Independence with a much larger signature than the other signers, leading to the idiom "put down your John Hancock" being used to mean "sign here."

----!!Provides Examples Of:

* HundredPercentHeroismRating: What Ray hopes to achieve for Hancock. [[spoiler:By the third act, he appears to have obtained it-- as he and Mary argue after a "small" scuffle that ruined a city street, the onlooking crowd applauds Hancock based on his (much improved) reputation alone]].%%* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: * AnArmAndALeg: Red, the ringleader of the bank robbery halfway through the film, tries to coerce Hancock into helping him with a spring-loaded "dead-man's switch". Hancock's solution, cut his hand off and keep it closed around the detonator. [[spoiler: At the climax, he's holding a gun to a depowered Hancock, and Ray chops his other hand off with an ax before killing him.]]* AnimalMotifs: Hancock often finds himself surrounded by subtle or prominent imagery of an Eagle, waking up on a bench with an eagle painted on it, wearing a hat bearing a logo of an eagle on the front, scrawling eagles on the walls of his cell, etc. Ray seems to have noticed this recurring motif and purposely put an Eagle on Hancock's brand new suit as his symbol. His reintroduction to the public has him walk past a prominent metal statue of one, he appears to have a drawing of a bird in his trailer, and finally, Hancock is shown watching over New York whilst sitting next to one.* AntiHero: Hancock is this at the start of the film - a drunken, sexist, homophobic, politically incorrect JerkAss who cares nothing for collateral damage and only saves people out of some strange need. He grows out of it with Ray's help.* ArcSymbol: Ray's "All Heart" logo, which he hopes to convince big corporations use as brand recognition, to indicate the amount of charity work they do. They laugh him out of the room [[spoiler: until the ending, when Hancock puts the All Heart logo on the near side of the moon.]]* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: The two thugs, one whose head Hancock shoves up the others rectum. While one merely suffered a neck injury, the other seemed to get off without any apparent intestinal ruptures that should have done significant damage. Needless to say, they both got ''really'' lucky.* ArtisticLicensePhysics: After becoming annoyed at a kid that keeps calling him an asshole, Hancock suddenly snatches the kid up and hurls him thousands of feet into the air in the blink of an eye. The acceleration from this act would immediately tear your body apart, and even if it didn't, the internal trauma would immediately destroy all of your internal organs, including your brain. Likewise for the deceleration when he catches the kid a moment later.* AssShove: Hancock's favorite threat is to shove someone's head up someone else's ass. Later, he makes good on that threat.* BadassBookworm: Kenneth "Red" Parker Jr. He's mentioned in a news report as a former Psychology professor who created a large underground network using psychological persuasion to create criminals.* BerserkButton: Call Hancock an asshole. One. More. Time. [[spoiler:Mary]] also has one: she doesn't like it when someone calls her crazy.* BigApplesauce: [[spoiler: Hancock chooses to set up his new life in New York after leaving Mary alone in L.A.]]* BittersweetEnding: It's downplayed on the "bitter" part. Hancock and [[spoiler:Mary]] are supposedly "drawn to one another" but do not hook up at the end. She's HappilyMarried and in love and he's doing what he loves doing, and they show no signs of actually wanting to hook up.* BlackComedy: The first act is about the gruesome injuries and vulgaries that Hancock engages in, and how this is played for laughs. The original scripts continued this way, but the addition of the second plot line takes it in a different direction.* BlatantLies: Hancock's excuse for "coming in hot" when he landed in the street.--> '''Hancock''': That was already like that when I got here.--> '''Ray''': I live here... I know what the street looks like.* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler: Mary had to push Hancock away so he would not die because they are vulnerable when together.]]* BroughtDownToNormal: Hancock and [[spoiler: other immortals like him]] suffer from this when [[spoiler: they come into contact with their immortal mate. The loss of their powers allows them to decide to live a mundane mortal life and eventually die. All but Hancock and Mary have chosen this fate and died before the start of the film. Mary implies that they have made several attempts at this in the past, but Hancock is addicted to helping people, and they constantly end up apart so that he can resume being a hero]].* BullyingADragon: When Hancock goes to jail, the prisoners, who he put there, surround and heckle him. [[TooDumbToLive Are they all tired of living?]]* BusFullOfInnocents: In this case a bank full of innocents acting as hostage to the robbers. Hancock saving them without loss of life or major property damage is precisely when his public image improves.* CardboardPrison: Normal prisons have no hope of holding Hancock. He pulls a steel door off its hinges when he gets annoyed and flies over the fence to pick up a lost basketball. The fact that he's ''willing to stay of his own accord'' rather than actually ''escape'' is part of his CharacterDevelopment.* CarFu: Mary smacks Hancock with a truck. It's set off by the aforementioned BerserkButton.* CatchPhrase:** When Hancock is still struggling to get the hang of getting people to like him, he's prone to saying "[[SincerityMode Good job]]" to anyone without much regard to context.** His dares for someone to "Call [him] a asshole... one more time..." could be considered one.* CerebusSyndrome: Remember the goofy first half of the movie where Will Smith is a JerkAss superhero? That goes away. See FeetFirstIntroduction below for quite possibly the exact moment when the tone changes.* CoincidentalBroadcast: TV news about Hancock are being aired whenever a TV is switched on. * ComesGreatResponsibility: Most of the movie revolves around Hancock cleaning up his act.* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: The citizens complain about collateral damage because Hancock is everything but subtle in his heroics. It isn't until Hancock's absence that some of them learn to appreciate him.* CrooksAreBetterArmed: Cops wielding standard-issue handguns plus a few rifles are pinned down by a group of bank robbers wearing body armor and armed with machine guns and BottomlessMagazines. Hancock shows up in order to pull the two pinned down cops to safety, then catch the robbers.* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Hancock's most frequent threat to ''everybody'' is to shove their head up people's asses. Since he's a superhero, he can, and in one scene ''does'' make good on that threat.* DeadpanSnarker:** Often by Hancock and Ray; it's a feedback loop such as this one. Ray shows Hancock a video of him hurling Walter the whale back into the ocean...on top of a Greenpeace boat:-->'''Hancock''': ''[scoffs]'' I don't even remember that...-->'''Ray''': ... Greenpeace does. Walter does.* DeathByChildbirth: Ray's first wife, which is why he's married to Mary now. * DefaceOfTheMoon: [[spoiler: Hancock carves the All Heart logo onto the moon as a thank you to Ray.]]* {{Deconstruction}}: Of superheroes, showing collateral damage and bad publicity when they don't act like TheCape. The movie does this in a [[DeconstructiveParody fun way]] for the first half of the movie.* DestructiveSavior: The movie bases a big part of its plot in both [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructing and making fun of this]]. Hancock breaks a lot of stuff while chasing bad guys and tends to inadvertly cause trouble whenever he tries to help. Because of this, most people hate him, and he has to learn to clean his act before he can get any appreciation. * DestructoNookie: In one of the deleted scenes, when a random girl has sex with Hancock, it ended with his sperm emissions shooting off as fast and durable as high caliber bullets through the roof of his trailer. Luckily he got the girl off of him before the big climax. That's why Hancock doesn't have sex.* {{Determinator}}: Hancock proves to be one after he [[spoiler: loses his powers and soldiers on anyway]].* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Despite being ''literally'' made for each other due to the in-universe superpowered immortals being bonded in pairs, Hancock and Mary are quite happy to stay on opposite sides of the United States, just so their respective immortal lives can continue.]]* DisproportionateRetribution:** Hancock shoving people's heads up asses for annoying him.** Rather than tell Hancock what was going on after they first meet, [[spoiler:Mary flings him out of her house and into the street after they share a kiss]]. Justified- see BroughtDownToNormal above.* DistaffCounterpart: [[spoiler: Mary to Hancock. They were created as a pair. They even have similar [[BerserkButton trigger words.]]]]%%* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: * DoNotTauntCthulhu: People just don't know when to stop taunting Hancock, who has been explictly compared to a greek god. %%* DramaticThunder: Punctuated by [[spoiler:SnowMeansLove]].* DudeWheresMyRespect: Yes, Hancock causes a lot of collateral damage but he also halts crime and saves lives and yet the people hate him because he's not nice about it. * EagleLand: The television host who proclaims that Hancock is not as strong as the US Constitution.* EternalLove: [[spoiler: Hancock and Mary are soulmates, made for each other, and have been in a relationship for hundreds of years]].* FeetFirstIntroduction: [[spoiler:Mary, after Hancock finds out that she's a super being like he is, is introduced as a [[DarkActionGirl dark action girl]] with a focus on her [[CombatStilettos combat stilettos]] as she leaves her car when arriving at Hancock's trailer]].* FlyingBrick: Hancock can fly and is completely invulnerable, to the point that even his facial hair is too tough for razors. He shaves using his fingernails. This is SuperStrength taken to great levels. Hancock would have to exert 33 and a third million Newtons to stop that train.* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the TV programs has someone insisting that Hancock should move to New York. [[spoiler:He does in the end.]]* FrenchJerk: Michel will not stop calling people "asshole" or "la petite asshole", even when asked nicely. * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Hancock is an asshole because when he woke up in the hospital with amnesia he learned that he apparently had no ties to anyone and that he had to have been some kind of ass to not know a single person who cared about his apparent predicament.]]* GenreShift: It goes from a BlackComedy (Act 1) to a [[BromanticComedy Buddy Film]] (Act 2) to a Drama (Act 3).* AGodAmI: Hancock has this attitude sometimes, but [[spoiler: Mary]] gets it pretty bad for their fight. It helps they were [[spoiler:Godlike, and called Gods since the beginning of time.]]-->'''Hancock''': You and I, we're the same.-->'''[[spoiler:Mary]]''': No, I'm stronger.-->'''Hancock''': Really?-->'''[[spoiler:Mary]]''': *smugly* Oh yeah.* GoodIsNotNice: Hancock; in the beginning, he's rude, lecherous, drunk, and cares next-to-nothing for public safety and property damage when he goes after crooks. * GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:The scene in which Hancock amputates Red's hand holding a dead-man's switch cuts to a shot outside the bank.]]* GroinAttack: Hancock breaks free from a choke hold through a groin shot in the final fight. He has to resort to these tactics because [[spoiler: he's been depowered.]]* HalfwayPlotSwitch: As laid out under GenreShift, "PR problem" shifts to "villain attack".* HeroInsurance: Hancock's talent for causing collateral damage is wearing thin on the public at the start of the film.* HeroWithBadPublicity: The premise is Hancock is a hero whose public hates him. Ray intends to fix this by giving him HundredPercentHeroismRating: "Crowds should cheer when you fly by. Boys should beg for your autograph. People should ''love'' you. They really should." Instead, they boo him. * HoldingOutForAHero: The first step in Ray's plan to fix Hancock's bad publicity is to "remind them that they need you."* HookHand: Red replaced his hand with a hook because Hancock rips his original one off [[TakeAThirdOption to get around the deadman switch.]]* IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler: Hancock was attacked with his wife and had his skull fractured, which erased any memory of who he was.]]* IgnoredVitalNewsReports: At the convenience store, Hancock doesn't seem to take notice of the crucial news about Kenneth Parker Jr.'s prison break.* ImplacableMan: In the eyes of the criminals of LA, Hancock is ''definitely'' one of these. He can fly, is strong enough to [[ItMakesSenseInContext hurl belligerent children almost into orbit]], bring freight trains to a destructive halt by ''standing in the way'' and shrug off bullets and anti-tank fire as though they were bug bites. And to make matters worse, he's ''immortal''.* ImpossiblePickleJar: Mary asks her husband to open a jar for her, [[spoiler:to hide the fact she has super-strength like Hancock.]]* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Hancock grabs a beached whale by the tail and throws it back into the ocean where it hits a boat and capsizes it. This is just one of many incidents on Website/YouTube that Ray found of Hancock's "exploits."* InstitutionalApparel: Orange jumpsuits in prison.* {{Jerkass}}:** Hancock is, initially, a rude, crude, boozing asshole. ** [[spoiler: Mary]] is also this [[spoiler: especially while she unloads 3,000 years of repressed anger in the street fight with Hancock, when he's repeatedly and honestly told her he ''doesn't remember anything'' about his former life.]]* KryptoniteFactor: [[spoiler:Whenever Hancock and Mary are close to each other, they become vulnerable.]]* LargeHam: Red, sometimes.-->''"WHERE'D HE GO?! ...'''WHERE DID HE GO?!!'''"''* LastOfHisKind: Hancock believes himself to be this. [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother - Mary - but all the others died out.]]* LateArrivalSpoiler: The DVD cover [[spoiler: has Charlize Theron equally BilledAboveTheTitle and pictured alongisde Will Smith in her DarkActionGirl garb.]]* LivingLegend: Everyone knows who Hancock is. They know he's perfectly willing to help. They just don't like him very much.* LivingForeverIsAwesome: [[spoiler: Hancock and Mary decide to split permanently because they enjoy their immortality. Hancock, for instance, wants to be a super hero forever.]]* MagicPants: Hancock wears normal clothes and regularly flies into the pavement. He's even slammed by a train at one point but his clothes never get shredded. It's averted in a Website/YouTube video Ray shows him in which what's left of his clothes are barely there after putting out an apartment fire.* MalignedMixedMarriage: [[spoiler: Hancock and Mary]]'s troubles throughout history are implied to be a result of their races.* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In a deleted scene, Hancock warns a woman about this before having sex with her. At the last minute, he shows her off him and his sperm ''shoot out through the roof''. * MissingMom: Ray's first wife died while giving birth to his son.* MortalWoundReveal: After the shooting at the shop, it takes Hancock a couple of seconds to notice that he received two gut shots. Then he sinks down. It's not mortal as in ''fatal'' but it demonstrates that Hancock has ''become'' mortal. * MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Invoked by Ray who gives Hancock a black leather suit to make him more professional. "I ain't wearing that", Hancock says, but Ray eventually convinces him. * MundaneUtility: Hancock uses his super strength (combined with either enhanced marksmanship or just a damn good jump shot) to make some absurdly long jumpers on the prison's basketball court.* NameAmnesia: In his backstory, Hancock lost his memory and with it, his name. He eventually adopted the name "Hancock" after someone asked for his signature (his "John Hancock") and assumed it was his name.* NiceGuy: Ray is the first person to ever show sincere gratitude for having his life saved by Hancock, and goes out of his way to treat him with respect and consideration, on top of wanting to help him improve his reputation.* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Hancock is about to abandon prison and heads for the door when Ray calls him out (You're being a coward!) which makes Hancock change his mind.* NotHyperbole: While he may or may not actually be serious when making the threat, when Hancock threatens to shove someone's head up someone else's posterior, he really can do it, and ''will'' if pushed too far.* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Mary whistles as she goes to fetch eggs from the fridge, [[spoiler:which is in the parking lot outside her home, after she threw it (along with the titular character) through her wall upon revealing her powers to him]].* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: [[spoiler: Hancock and Mary lose their powers if they stay together. This was the reason for every other being like them dying out]].* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Obviously exaggerated; the aforementioned French kid gets thrown maybe a mile up into the air and then caught maybe four feet from the ground without any apparent ill effects other than a bruised ego and physical shock.* OnlySaneMan:** Ray is one of the only people in the Hancock-verse who recognises that it's ''not'' a good idea to piss Hancock off.--> '''Mary''': Did he just take the whiskey bottle to the bathroom?--> '''Ray''': Do you want him to kill us all?** Ray subverts this trope when he and Hancock get into an argument at the prison in which Hancock is being held. He calls Hancock a coward and even stands his ground when Hancock is clearly ready to retaliate physically.* OohMeAccentsSlipping: No idea where on earth Creator/EddieMarsan's villain is supposed to be from. He's sometimes English, sometimes Southern US, and sometimes vaguely...Irish?* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Hancock and Mary are implied to be this. They're certainly powerful enough and have at many times in history been dubbed and worshipped as gods]].* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. [[spoiler: Hancock is assaulted in his weakened state by bigots in 1931 Florida because he's with a white woman. That's also the probable motive of the 1850 incident]].* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Mary, it's one thing to be displeased about what happened in the past with Hancock, but refraining from telling him about his past in his amnesic state and certainly ''threatening him'' only compound the problems which ultimately end up revealing her secret to Ray]].* ThePowerOfLove: As above, [[spoiler:the supermen and women are designed in pairs that are drawn to each other, and according to Theron's character, being close to one another causes them to lose their powers so they can grow old and die together. However, Hancock's desire to continue being a hero even at the expense of their life together was, according to Mary, a failsafe, so that there would always be somebody to watch over humanity. An attack while the two are depowered leads to Hancock becoming amnesiac, allowing Mary to leave and eventually meet Ray about eighty years later.]]* PowerOfTheStorm‎: When Hancock pisses [[spoiler:Mary]] off, she creates a hurricane and several tornadoes.* QuietCryForHelp: A liquor store owner is being robbed at gunpoint when Hancock strolls in to buy two large bottles of booze. The owner rings up the sale as $91.10, which Hancock declares outrageous. The owner points to the LED display ostensibly to verify the price, but with one finger over the zero so that only "91.1" is visible. Hancock gets the hint, and unsubtly corrects the problem. * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Hancock and Mary are several thousand years old, but look forty at most]].* TheRealHeroes: Ray tries to use this as part of Hancock's PR rehabilitation. Ray tells Hancock to say "good job" whenever he arrives to help police. Hancock asks "if they're doing a good job, why do I need to show up?" Ray responds with snark about how he, Hancock, is ImmuneToBullets and they are not so they are the ones risking their lives. It is played around with in Hancock's first heroic act after his PR, where after saying "good job" [[ParodiedTrope over and over]], the cops [[InvertedTrope tell this to him]] for having saved one of them and the civilians.* RescueIntroduction: When Hancock rescues Ray, it starts their partnership.* ScrewDestiny: "People get to choose!"* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: A significant part of Hancock's attempt to clean up his act is to convince the public that he doesn't live by this trope and that they can hold him accountable for his actions by willingly serving time in prison, for instance, until he's called back in to help.* SexyDiscretionShot: The deleted sex scene in Hancock's trailer home between Hancock and a random girl who's apparently turned on by superhumans. As they're about to get it on, the trailer violently rocks back and fourth until right before Hancock [[UnusualEuphemism "reaches the mountaintop]]," (as he puts it) when he knocks the girl onto the couch and ejaculates three powerful shots through the roof.* ShamingTheMob: When a crowd jeers Hancock for causing massive collateral damage to save Ray, Ray chews them out for it and thanks Hancock instead.* ShootingSuperman: Everyone in the city knows Hancock is ImmuneToBullets. This doesn't stop them from trying to shoot him, nor from trying to beat him up, and they always have the nerve to act astonished when it doesn't work, shortly before being obliterated.* ShoutOut:** A crook in New York City references Wolverine when describing Hancock's costume, as it looks like the X-Men's black suits.** Post-rehab Hancock may remind some of too-many-directives Franchise/RoboCop in [[Film/RoboCop2 the second movie]].** In the opening sequence, Hancock flies into [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a flock of birds, and then a plane]]. Ray also at one point asks if Hancock arrived on Earth via meteor.* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Creator/CharlizeTheron. The DVD previews didn't do it, and it went to TrailersAlwaysSpoil.* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: The film starts with Ray at the idealistic end (All Heart Symbol), and Hancock at the cynical end (don't care about anything or anyone). The movie ends up closer to center but still tilted toward idealism (i.e. Hancock is still a pro-bono superhero but not a boyscout).* StealthPun: Ray meets Mary in the [[spoiler:''super''market.]]* TheStinger: A scene during the end credits with a NY crook triggering Hancock's BerserkButton.* StrappedToABomb: The hostages during the bank robbery have one that is connected to the robber's dead-man switch. Hancock resolves this in his customary brutal fashion. * SymbolMotifClothing: Hancock likes to put eagles on his clothes.* TemptingFate: Michel, when a fully-grown man who is both twice your size and has literal superpowers dares you to call him an "asshole" again, you probably shouldn't do it. Granted, he's a ten-year-old boy and a bully to boot, so he's probably not the sharpest tool in the box to begin with.* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Mostly inverted, [[spoiler:the supers are in pairs who weaken each other if they get close enough, but the last two never quite get together.]]* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: Mary is a being like Hancock.]]* ThinkNothingOfIt: What Hancock does not say it but he means it; he never asks for anything in response to his heroism. [[HeroWithBadPublicity The people think a lot of it, and it's the bad stuff that they think of]].* TooDumbToLive: ** All the criminals and most of the citizens are essentially suicidal. The titular superhero Hancock is a JerkAss FlyingBrick who can and will use his powers to frighten, humiliate, or possibly mutilate anyone who remotely displeases him. He's also [[NighInvulnerability immune to harm]]. Despite this, everyone, save Ray, will either insult him, try to provoke him, or [[ShootingSuperman shoot him]], despite the fact it should be obvious he will cause them [[DisproportionateRetribution serious harm in return]].** The (former) prisoners who assault Hancock at the hospital. Sure he can be hurt ''now'' because he's turning mortal, but he still has SuperStrength and there is no way they could have known he'd be vulnerable. [[note]] The scene before showed a news report about him being hospitalized with gunshot wounds but they started planning to escape and get revenge long before this happens.[[/note]] Although in this instance, it could be chalked up to [[SanitySlippage the prisoners going mad with revenge]], as well as Red's (who was proven to be a crazed [[TheSociopath sociopath]] to begin with) manipulation.* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Later trailers and the DVD cover all spoil the twist that [[spoiler:there's another superhuman]].* {{Trainstopping}}: Hancock saves Ray by stopping a freight train from hitting his car. He seriously damages the front of the train and knocks it off the rails, but nobody onboard was seriously injured.* TheUnfairSex: {{Averted}} in this case. Hancock calls [[spoiler: Mary]] out for how poorly she handled his amnesia.* UnflinchingWalk: When Hancock shows up to help the police with the bank robbery, he goes on one of these, walking through a hail of bullets and gun-launched grenades. The rifle fire only causes him to dust off his new superhero outfit, while he deflects the grenade into an unattended car with his bare hand.* UngratefulBastard: Averted. While other citizens yell at Hancock for derailing the train, and Ray himself does agree that he could have just lifted the car up into the air, Ray is nonetheless thankful towards Hancock for saving his life.* UntrustingCommunity: Averted; the population of Los Angeles are belligerent and ungrateful, berating Hancock for his methods of stopping crime and saving people (which costs the city millions and often trashes some poor sod's day).* WeaksauceWeakness: Hancock's only weakness? [[spoiler:His intended mate. Any attempt to live a loving, fulfilling life with his wife of ''3,000'' years will cause them to both become mortal in order to die together. Hancock has a hero complex to save people, which attracts bad guys who attack them in their weakened state. They argue, he leaves, they meet again and the whole cycle starts again.]]* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Hancock had this image in the public eye until Ray taught him how to make a good enough impression to make people realise that he genuinely was a superhero.* WonderTwinPowers: [[spoiler:Inverted. When Mary and Hancock are around each other for long periods of time, they become more like normal humans. When they spend time apart again, the effect is reversed.]]%%%%% "Part of the premise of the first half of the film." is not context.* WhatTheHellHero: Hancock is criticized by many, ''many'' people for his sloppy and destructive heroics. * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: This trope is played with. [[spoiler: Hancock and Mary have been together for centuries in a mixed marriage. In fact, Hancock's amnesia is a result of being assaulted by bigots [[MalignedMixedMarriage because he was with a white woman]] in pre-[[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Civil Rights]] era Florida.]] The PlayingWithATrope part comes in because [[spoiler: Hancock and Mary]] are both superheroes/immortals, so it's LikeGoesWithLike. * WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:This is a reason why there's no one else like Hancock: superheroes were made in pairs, and when they fell in love, they become mortal to live, have kids, and die together - and everyone ''but'' Hancock and Mary found peace.]]* WouldHurtAChild: Played with. The 10-year-old French kid who bullies Ray's son is stupid enough to repeatedly call Hancock an asshole. Hancock tosses him at least a mile in the air in retaliation, but catches him on the way down so he's not seriously hurt (just scared shitless). Ray is visibly shaken, [[JerkassVictim but not many viewers cared]].* YouTube: Ray shows Hancock why he has such bad publicity. Someone recorded Hancock cavalierly grabbing a whale by its tail and flinging it out into the ocean, then posted the video on YouTube. In real life, the scene from the movie was posted to YouTube by the studio itself.